Le Mans circuit delivered a dramatic race with Marco Simoncelli surviving a Ride Through Penalty after taking Dani Pedrosa out in a overtaking maneuver. Both riders were on it for 2nd place, and Simoncelli overtook Pedrosa round the outside. Unfortunately Simoncelli left Pedrosa with no space to go. Pedrosa suffered a broken right collarbone as [...]
Casey Stoner has won his 4th opening round GP in Qatar. Looks like the testing hype has rung true. Teammate Dani Pedrosa could only finish 3rd after losing out from reigning champ “George” Lorenzo. Dani showed promise leading early on, but never recovered after Stoner took the lead. Repsol’s 3rd rider Davizioso and Simoncelli rounded [...]
Valentino Rossi makes his first appearance today in Ducati colours and breaks his silence since joining Ducati. He reveals he isn’t fully fit, at least till April. “I had hoped to feel a bit better, there’s a lot of work to be done but it’s a nice challenge to be in decent form for the [...]
Valentino Rossi finally has permission from Yamaha racing boss Masao Furusawa to switch to Ducati for the Valencia tests, which take place in the days after the season finale at the Spanish track on 7 November. “Last night I spoke with Furusawa,” Rossi was quoted as saying by Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, “and he [...]
Seven years, 4 MotoGP titles and 45 race wins later, Valentino Rossi has parted company with Yamaha. Ben Spies is expected to be promoted to the factory Yamaha. Valentino will replace Casey Stoner on the lead Ducati, in a 2 year contract. Nicky Hayden is most likely to be retained to partner the Doctor. It remains [...]
The Doctor staged an amazing comeback after breaking his leg 6 weeks ago. Finishing 4th, a mere 0.366 seconds behind Casey Stoner. The 2 of them battled lap after lap in the 21-laps of the German GP, until Stoner pipped Rossi on the final lap. Looks like having 1.5 good legs didn’t slow Rossi much. [...]
Vale Rossi who, only a month ago, broke his leg in a practice crash in Mugello, has jumped back on a race bike this past week. Albeit on a factory Yamaha Superbike YZF-R1, not his regular MotoGP M1. He complained he was bored sitting at home. In the first test at Misano he was [...]
Casey Stoner has finalised a deal to return to Honda after 4 years with Ducati, yeilding 20 wins and a world title. Stoner will return to the Honda fold on a factoy ride. This could possibly mean a 3-prong Repsol Honda team. With Stoner out of the way, Ducati are looking at a possible replacement [...]
Pole sitter Casey Stoner fails in bid to win 4 races on the trot in Qatar. Rossi inherits lead but had to fend off Andrea Davioso and the Honda top speed to win the round 1 of the MotoGP Championship. Jorge Lorenzo surged past Davioso to finish 2nd, while a resurgent Nicky Hayden finished just [...]
Fiat Yamaha Team may have 2 riders on their roster but teammates they are in name only. #46 & #99 will have even less in common this season on. It has emerged, following from last year’s wall splitting the team, Rossi & Lorenzo will no longer share data between themselves during race weekends. The rational [...]
2010 will be a massive year of exposure for Petronas. In F1 they have Herr Schumacher returning with Mercedes GP, and no one on 4 wheels is better known than him. And MotoGP’s undisputed King, Vale Rossi is carying Petronas colours on his Yamaha M1. Malaysia’s on the motorsposrt map big time , thank [...]
